by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 6:57 pm | Economy, News
Kolkata, Apr 20 (PTI) The state, which was at one time known as the strike capital of the country, has brought down man-days lost to industrial action to zero from 75 lakh annually, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday, as she wooed investors from across the globe at a big-ticket business summit [...]
by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 5:18 pm | Economy, News
New Delhi (India), April 20: ‘Collaboration: The Key to Mutual Prosperity in a Post-pandemic World’ was the theme of the 17th Edition of Asia-Europe Business & Social Forum 2022 Awards & Business Summit, which concluded recently at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London, UK. The Forum's main aim was to deliberate and dwell upon [...]
by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 5:15 pm | Economy, News
Islamabad, Apr 20 (PTI) Pakistan was "drowning" in debt and it was the new government's job to "sail this ship ashore," Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday after chairing the first Cabinet meeting since assuming office.Sharif's 34-member Cabinet - a mix of experience and fresh blood - was sworn in on Tuesday after several [...]
by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 3:58 pm | Economy, IPO, News
New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI) Financial services firm Pantomath Group on Wednesday announced the first closure of its Rs 500-crore pre-IPO fund 'India Inflection Opportunity Fund'. The category II Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) aims to harness opportunity of investing at pre-IPO stage in Indian growth stage businesses that are on the verge of a big [...]
by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 3:11 pm | Commodities, Commodity Prices, Economy, News
Islamabad, Apr 20 (PTI) Around 34 per cent of Pakistan's population lives on just USD 3.2 or Rs 588 a day income, the World Bank has said as the cash-strapped country's new Finance Minister Miftah Isamil faces uphill tasks of containing rising inflation and navigating through one of the worst external sector crisis. The Pakistan [...]
by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 3:05 pm | Economy, News
New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI) The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) on Wednesday said it has signed an agreement with the National Insurance Academy (NIA) for capacity building and creating a skilled talent pool. This memorandum of understanding (MoU) endeavours to build required skilled manpower for the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC). With the [...]
by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 12:50 pm | Economy, News
New Delhi, Delhi, India (NewsVoir) • Over one lakh students will participate in the drive • Approx. 100 tons of waste will be collected and prevented from ending up in an unprocessed form in landfills Blue Planet Skills announced the launch of a Collective Responsibility Drive in association with the Department of Education, Government of [...]
by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 12:42 pm | Economy, News
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Great Place to Work® India has announced India’s Best Workplaces™ in BFSI 2022 on the 13th of April 2022. This milestone year is the 5th edition of India’s Best Workplaces in BFSI representing the voice of more than 6 lakh employees. 110 organizations were assessed as a part of this research and [...]
by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 12:22 pm | Economy, News
Colombo, Apr 20 (PTI) The police in Sri Lanka on Wednesday said that curfew will continue in the southwestern region of Rambukkana where one person was killed and 13 others were injured in violence after the police opened fire at unarmed anti-government protestors demonstrating against the latest fuel price hike. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that [...]
by PTI News | Apr 20, 2022 | 10:57 am | Economy, News
Beijing, Apr 20 (PTI) China’s business hub Shanghai has reported seven more fatalities due to COVID-19, taking the death toll to 17 amidst signs of a declining trend in fresh cases, the health commission said on Wednesday. The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 2,753 locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases, of which 2,494 were in Shanghai, according to [...]
